As of today I am officially declaring the DVD drive dead, I know many of you protest this idea and may think my postmortem is premature, but with all my DVD drives sitting on a shelf collecting dust for the last three years, it to me is a long time coming. The last time I can remember using a DVD drive was a few years ago when I was installing Windows Vista on my PC, which was a slow and painful processes due to the limited transfer rates of a DVD drive. Even my Blu-ray drive is sitting on a shelf, which is due mainly to spotty software support that essentially turned it into nothing more than an over glorified and overpriced DVD drive. Again, for me, it was a long time coming and I for one am glad that I no longer have to stack disc on my desk and wait for slow installs.

he last time I used a drive I can remember thinking just how slow the process of installing Windows was and that I wanted a faster way, since as a reviewer I often change my operating system on s bi-weekly basis. The answer of course was to use a flash drive and even though they were no were near as fast back then they still installed Windows in half the amount of time it took a DVD, and with flash drives pushing above 200MB/s now you can have a fresh install of Windows running in no time.
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